شمع اور شاعر
میں تو جلتی ہوں کہ ہے مضمر مری فطرت میں سوزتو فروزاں ہے کہ پروانوں کو ہو سودا ترا
English translation
I am alight because burning is built into my nature; you are alight so that the moths may have the love of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سودا: خبط۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 86 in “شمع اور شاعر” (The Candle And The Poet) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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